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| Description of an organization or service listed below, or in the WARP newsletter, does not constitute an endorsement by WARP. |
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Alternative Trading Organizations |
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| United for a Better Life | Your purchase greatly improves lives! UPAVIM is a Guatemalan women’s cooperative committed to creating a better life for themselves, their families, and community. Profits from fair trade sales go into community programs. Offering quality textile accessories, terracotta items, unique children’s toys, vegetable candles, baskets, beaded jewelry, recycled gifts, pet products and more! |
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| Black Mesa Weavers for Life and Land |
Black Mesa Weavers for Life and Land empowers local communities to expand their traditional economy through fair trade and sustainable development. The web site features weavings, wool and mohair, and other crafts for sale.Your purchase greatly improves lives! UPAVIM is a Guatemalan women’s cooperative committed to creating a better life for themselves, their families, and community. Profits from fair trade sales go into community programs. Offering quality textile accessories, terracotta items, unique children’s toys, vegetable candles, baskets, beaded jewelry, recycled gifts, pet products and more! |
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| Fair Trade Federation |
Fair Trade Federation is a US association dedicated to fair trade. The website contains excellent links to retail and wholesale stores, and a lot of information on fair trade. |
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| Fair Trade Resource Network |
The Fair Trade Resource Network raises consumer awareness about improving people’s lives through Fair Trade alternatives. |
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| A Greater Gift |
A Greater Gift promotes the social and economic progress of people in developing regions of the world by marketing their products in a just and direct manner. |
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| Mayan Hands | Mayan Hands is a small fair trade organization which works with more than two hundred women organized in twelve different cooperative groups. These talented weavers produce beautiful, high quality textiles which Mayan Hands is proud to market. |
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| Colores de Pueblo |
Colores de Pueblo a fair trade organization dedicated to assisting Latin American artisans and farmers – directly! The website has some interesting information on Central America, as well as a wide array of beautiful crafts for sale. |
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| ComArt Tukuypaj | ComArt Tukuypaj is a non-profit, fair trade organization representing over 60 artisans’ groups from all over Bolivia. |
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| World Fair Trade Organization | An international association that promotes fair trade. The website is an excellent resource for information on fair trade, has a good bibliography, and informative links. |
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| Moonflower Enterprises |
Moonflower Enterprises imports hand made, high quality, fair trade products from Guatemala and works directly with more than forty artisan families representing four Mayan ethnic groups in Guatemala. |
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| Oxfam | Oxfam GB is a development, relief, and campaigning organisation that works with others to find lasting solutions to poverty and suffering around the world. |
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| Ten Thousand Villages |
Ten Thousand Villages provides vital, fair income to Third World people by marketing their handicrafts and telling their stories in North America. |
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Web Stores |
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| Endangered Threads Documentaries |
Endangered Threads Documentaries produces educational documentaries recording indigenous weaving threatened by global economic expansion and homogenization of cultures. The website has an extensive photo anthology of weavers in Guatemala, and an order form and sales information for documentaries. |
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| Marrakesh Express |
Marrakesh Express sells handwoven Moroccan textiles online. The website includes a nonprofit section (Women Weavers OnLine) where you can “meet” the weavers of each textile and learn about their lives. |
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| Marilyn Anderson ~ Pro Arte Maya |
Marilyn Anderson ~ Pro Arte Maya describes the work of Marilyn Anderson with the Maya people. The website includes images and publications about Maya Arts and Crafts/Pro Arte Maya, some of which are for sale. |
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| Maya Traditions | Maya Traditions is a fair-trade producer and wholesale business based in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala and Edgewater, Florida. For over ten years we have worked with Maya indigenous weavers in the highlands of Guatemala. Our mission is to support weaving groups and small family businesses through providing consistent income, as well as health and education projects. |
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| SERRV International | Gifts that make a difference. Ethical fair trade gift and crafts products from a range of developing countries. Your purchase improves the lives of artisans and farmers worldwide. | ||||
Tours and Education |
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| Dr. Carol Ventura |
Dr. Carol Ventura is a scholar who specializes in indigenous arts and crafts. The website describes her work and has lots of information on crafts from around the world. |
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| Cross Cultural Collaborative, Inc |
An educational non-profit that invites people to Ghana to promote cultural exchange and understanding through the arts. |
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| Ixchel Museum of Indigenous Apparel | The Museo Ixchel del Traje Indigena is the only institution in Guatemala dedicated to the study and conservation of the country’s Mayan weavings. |
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| Manos de Oaxaca |
Eric Mindling of Manos de Oaxaca works with traditonal artisans in Oaxaca, Mexico and organizes trips and workshops there. His site is primarily focused on Oaxacan Pottery and is very beautifully presented. |
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| Puchka Peru Cultural Tours |
Puchka Peru Cultural Tours offers small-group tours to Peru, with an emphasis on textiles and folk art, and a commitment to fair trade. The description of the tours is very detailed and informative. |
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| Weavershand | Weavershand is an information page for Tablet Weaving, Kumihimo, and Ply-splitting. The website holds a wealth of information and hosts several other websites including Peter Collingwood’s web pages. |
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| Woman Ink | Woman Ink is a United Nations women’s development book service, Empowering Women with Knowledge to Transform Communities. This website has books for sale with the goal of meeting the needs of women worldwide. |
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| Tia Stephanie Tours | Tia Stephanie Tours offers unique Textile Arts Study Tours to Mexico. Topics and regions include: 1. The Language of Maya Textiles, The Highland Villages of San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas; 2. The History and Use of Natural Dyes in the Americas: A Hands-on Workshop in Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca. |
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| Marrakesh Express Cultural Tours | Dr. Susan Schaefer Davis is an anthropologist working in Morocco. Her academic interest is women and gender, and the aesthetic counterpart is Moroccan textiles. Her cultural tourism trips introduce you to both, highlighting people-to-people contacts. |
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| NOBLE JOURNEYS | Joan Noble, of NOBLE JOURNEYS, offers cultural, educational–and fun!–textile trips to Morocco, Southeast Asia, Peru, Italy, Mongolia, Guatemala, featuring unique private experiences along with visiting major sites. Meet local craftsmen in homes and villages, special lectures, meals, etc. See web site for some of the pre-planned tours. Customized programs can be designed for your group and/or individuals. |
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US Crafts Organizations |
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| American Crafts Council |
American Crafts Council is major national organization and publishes American Craft Magazine. The website is designed to support artisans who view themselves as producing craft rather than art. |
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| Southern Highland Craft Guild |
Southern Highland Craft Guild is the Appalachian Mountains craft guild. The website includes information on gallery exhibitions and an online shop. |
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| Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen |
Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen is a guild that promotes “… EXCELLENCE THROUGH EDUCATION, COLLABORATION, LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE.” The website includes information on exhibits, workshops, and fairs. |
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Handicraft Assistance |
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| ArtisanWork | SERRV ArtisanWork is an information gateway for artisans around the world and the people who work with them to connect, learn, and share information. | ||||
| The Crafts Center |
The Crafts Center “…is dedicated to improving the lives of low income artisans”. The site has information on marketing international crafts and includes a good newsletter. |
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| Aid to Artisans | Aid to Artisans “… is dedicated to creating economic opportunities for craftspeople in developing nations”. The website has a lot of information on product development, design and marketing; it also has items for sale. |
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| International Executive Service Corps |
International Executive Service Corps is a fair trade organization dedicated to assisting Latin American artisans and farmers. The website has a lot of information on how to get involved. |
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